Red River Weyr: 3rd Pass Pern

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Red River Weyr
3rd Pass Pern RP

Year 72 - Red River Weyr was founded in the foothills above the temperate tablelands in the central northern continent. The first Weyrwoman was Fiora of gold Ravath. The first Weyrleader was M'lel of bronze Duseth. Their first clutch consisted of 31 eggs with one queen, Jugrenth.

Beginning during the Second Pass, a trend developed amongst the Pernese. Though green dragons would Impress to male and female Candidates, fewer and fewer women were being Searched to Stand on the sands for the new babies. This was due to several factors -- holders were unwilling to send their daughters to the Weyr, preferring to keep them home to marry off to establish alliances or for personal gain. This move was also influenced by the commonfolks' interpretation of the Weyrs as an unwelcome draw upon healthy young men and women, (even a bastion of immorality).

Red River Weyr alone seemed to be immune to this trend. Their dragons still Searched out boys and girls alike, and female greenriders were given equal rights as their male counterparts, permitted to fly Threadfall with the wings. This perturbed many Holders, and even some of the other Weyrs. After all, a queenrider was a woman of upstanding virtues, inner strength, ensurers of Pern's future. Greenriders were promiscuous, emotional... the stigma attached to female greenriders grew and grew, and while Red River Weyr enjoyed pleasant (if cool) relationships with the other Weyrs, its relationship with the Holds suffered.

Currently, Red River Weyr is seen as the 'bastard child' of the Weyrs -- the last founded, a place to send riders that do not necessarily fit into the strictly stratified society that Pern has developed. It is a forward-thinking place, interesting in that it is actually perhaps the last Weyr to hold to the Old Ways.

Year 507 - Current Turn (late 3rd Interval)

Old Grananth is curled on the sands, hovering broodily over her clutch. The gold's wings are thickening, her shoulders gnarled and stiff with old scars. Many believe that this past Flight will probably be the aging queen's last, a meager clutch of 12 eggs. But wonder of wonders, she has lain a golden egg, the only one in eight years. Her rider, the Weyrwoman Esme, sits beside her great head, heartbroken, for her weyrmate of so many years, the Weyrleader J'elg, died not long after Grananth's final Flight, and his graying bronze Ovoth disappeared Between.

The Weyr is in limbo. Many riders fear that it will be dissolved, the riders distributed between the other Weyrs. But Grananth would allow none near her precious final brood.

The small clutch produced not only a new queen, but three oddly coloured dragons: Rose Golds Hectith and Trelilith, and Pewter Tecsolth. Are they the result of Grananth's illness? What will become of these strange new colours? And will they be enough to save the weyr?

Welcome to Red River Weyr.[/font]